Emilia Hart

The Sirens

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Produktbeschreibung

A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister's house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack--but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess's strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women's voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister's adolescent diary. 1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them--and in her--that no one else has. 1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they've feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can't explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them... A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gale, a Cengage Group
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 149mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781420522457
• ISBN-10: 1420522450
• Artikelnr.: 72504922

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'I gulped THE SIRENS down like it was water... It's a novel about the sea and the strength of women, about love and sisterhood, and an anger that's wild and ferocious and unstoppable. Like the sea, it is by turns bleak and violent, but also beautiful and magnificent. It made me cry in public and not care' Jennifer Saint

'Enthralling, compelling, poignant ... It made me cry on a railway platform' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Silence Factory

'Absolutely wonderful. It's a profoundly moving and rich historical story wrapped up in a contemporary murder mystery' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of The Leviathan

'This is one beautiful, brutal slow-burn of a novel' HEAT

'With lyrical prose and rich world-building, this compelling and immersive novel will resonate with fans of magical realism and folklore inspired fiction' GLAMOUR

'Full of allure and brimming with undercurrents of buried secrets... beautifully written and utterly compelling' EVIE WOODS, author of The Lost Bookshop

'What a gorgeous book this is ... Wistful, haunting, drenched in seaweed and a frothy tide, a story about sisterhood and the ocean. Beautiful ... I just loved it' CJ COOKE, author of The Lighthouse Witches

'Evocative and compelling, The Sirens is a deeply layered mystery, and a luminous ode to the sea and sisterhood. Written with Emilia Hart's assured and shimmering prose, the story is as hopeful as it is heart-wrenching' LUCY CLARKE, author of The Hike

'An atmospheric and vivid tale' WOMEN'S WEEKLY

'An absolutely immersive, utterly captivating puzzle box of a novel, both gripping and heart-wrenching. Hart is a gorgeously emotive storyteller - loved it!' ELLERY LLOYD, author of The Club

'A dark, glittering, magical book, filled with the power of women and the swell of the sea. The most immersive story I've read in a long time' CHARLOTTE RUNCIE, author of Salt on Your Tongue